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Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair
  • Florence Forbes, Stéphane Girard and Julyan Arbel organized the two-day workshop Bayesian learning theory for complex data modelling, on September 6-7 2018.

Member of the Organizing Committees
  • Florence Forbes was a member of the scientific committee of the 50th journées de statistique of Société Francaise de Statistique (JDS 2018) organized in Saclay.

  • Julyan Arbel co-organized the two-day workshop entitled Workshop sur la dynamique des communautés sur Twitter en période électorale : analyse par graphes aléatoires workshop on random graphs in Grenoble on April 26-27 2018.

  • Julyan Arbel co-organized with Richard Nickl, Cambridge University, a session entitled Bayesian nonparametrics for stochastic processes at International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) World Meeting 2018 in Edinburgh.

  • Jean-Baptiste Durand co-organized a three-day workshop on Models and Analysis of Eye Movements in Grenoble on June 6-8 2018 (https://eyemovements.sciencesconf.org/).

Seminars organization

  • mistis participates in the weekly statistical seminar of Grenoble. Several lecturers have been invited in this context.

  • Florence Forbes, Julyan Arbel and Marta Crispino are co-organizing a monthly reading group on Bayesian statistics.

Scientific Events Selection

Reviewer

In 2018, Florence Forbes, Stéphane Girard and Julyan Arbel have been a reviewer for Journées de la Statistique (JDS 2018). Additionally,

  • In 2018, Julyan Arbel has been a reviewer for

    • Statistics Conferences: Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting proceedings (BAYSM),

    • Machine Learning Conferences: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference (AABI).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards
  • Stéphane Girard is Associate Editor of the Statistics and Computing journal since 2012 and Associate Editor of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis since 2016. He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Dependence Modelling journal since December 2014.

  • Florence Forbes is Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in ICT: Computer Image Analysis since its creation in Sept. 2014. She is also Associate Editor of the Computational Statistics and Data Analysis journal since May 2018.

  • Julyan Arbel is Associate Editor of the Bayesian Analysis (BA) journal.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities
  • In 2018, Florence Forbes has been a reviewer for Ecological Modelling journal.

  • In 2018, Stéphane Girard has been a reviewer for Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Statistics & Risk Modeling, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Extremes.

  • In 2018, Jean-Baptiste Durand has been a reviewer for Behavior Research Methods (BRM) and a guest editor for PLOS Computational Biology (PLOS Comput. Biol.).

  • In 2018, Julyan Arbel has been a reviewer for: Annals of Statistics (AoS), Bayesian Analysis (BA), Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics (BJPS), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (CSDA), Electronic Journal of Statistics (EJS), Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (JNS), Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (SJS), Statistics and Probability Letters (SPL).

Invited Talks

Florence Forbes has been invited to give talks at the following seminars and conferences:

Julyan Arbel has been invited to give talks at the following seminars and conferences:

  • 11th International Conference of Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStat), University of Pisa, Italy, December 14-16. Invited talk: Some distributional properties of Bayesian neural networks.

  • Workshop on Bayesian nonparametrics, Bordeaux, France, July 2-4. Invited talk. Some distributional properties of Bayesian neural networks.

  • Olympiades Académiques de Mathématiques, Grenoble. Talk: The mathematics of artificial intelligence.

  • Trinity College Statistics Seminar, Dublin, Ireland, May 9. Invited talk: Bayesian graphs and neural networks.

  • Journées statistiques de Rochebrune, Megève, France (26-30 March). Invited course: An introduction to Bayesian nonparametric statistics.

  • R User group in Grenoble, France, February 8, 2018. Talk (with Alexis Arnaud): Good coding practice, coding style and R packages.

  • Workshop on Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data (SMPGD), Université de Montpellier, France, 11-12 January 2018. Invited talk: A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Ecological Risk Assessment.

Among the conferences listed in Section 10, [42], [43], [31], [33] were invited talks.

Scientific Expertise

Florence Forbes is Scientific Advisor since March 2015 for the Pixyl company.

Research Administration

  • S. Girard is a member of the "Comité des Emplois Scientifiques" at Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes since 2015.

  • Since 2015, S. Girard is a member of the INRA committee (CSS MBIA) in charge of evaluating INRA researchers once a year in the MBIA dept of INRA.

  • S. Girard has been a reviewer of research projects for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium.

  • Florence Forbes is a member of the "Comité Développement Technologique" for software development projects at Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes since 2015.

  • Florence Forbes is a member of the "Comite d'organisation stratégique" of Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes since 2017.

  • Florence Forbes is a member of the Executive Committee of the Grenoble data institute.

  • Florence Forbes has been a member of the Selection committee for assistant professors at ENS Paris and a member of the Inria admission committee of junior researchers (CRCN) in June 2018.